The Canadian Press

February 3, 2009

The father of a 14-year-old girl from Northwestern Ontario is suing the Ontario Provincial Police after his daughter was shocked with a taser.

A statement of claim alleges two officers used the device on the girl after she was told to stop scratching at the paint inside a jail cell in Sioux Lookout, Ont.

The lawsuit, filed Jan. 23 in Ontario Superior Court in Kenora, says that the officers entered the cell without warning, “violently” pulled the girl to the ground and applied the taser.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

The girl, identified in the lawsuit as having “mental disabilities,” cannot be identified because she is a minor.

Her family is seeking $500,000 in damages.